The Braille and Talking Book Library serves Blind, Visually Impaired, and physically challenged persons who have difficulty accessing regular printed materials due to visual or physical disabilities. Equipment and reading materials are provided at no cost to those who qualify for the service.

The Touch and Listen Newsletter keeps you up to date with what's going on at the Braille and Talking Book Library as well as new additions to the collection of recorded works.

Library volunteers assist in recording, monitoring, and reviewing college textbooks, monthly magazines, special projects, and recreational reading materials. They inspect books before they are loaned out to readers, label and mail information on services, and assist by filing, answering phones, and photocopying. Contact the library to become a volunteer.

Announcements and Notices

BARD Security Notice

To enhance security of patron accounts and prevent misuse, NLS will be making the following change to BARD:

Any patron account that has not been used in one year or more will be moved to an Inactive/Suspended status. Each day, BARD will check to see if a patron account was last used more than one year ago. When BARD identifies unused accounts, these accounts will be moved to the Inactive/Suspended status and libraries will be sent an automated email that lists affected accounts. Any BARD account that holds the status of Inactive/Suspended can be reactivated quickly and easily by a library administrator.

FDB03864MBC: Kinsey Millhone 1-5.
Author: Grafton, Sue
Titles: A is for Alibi; B is for Burglar ; C is for Corpse; D is for Deadbeat; E is for Evidence

FDB03865MBC: Kinsey Millhone 6-10.
Author: Grafton, Sue
Titles: F is for Fugitive; G is for Gumshoe; H is for Homicide; I is for Innocent; J is for Judgment

FDB03876MBC: Stephanie Plum 1-10.
Author: Evanovich, Janet
Titles: One for the Money; Two for the Dough; Three to Get Deadly; Four to Score; High Five; Hot Six; Seven Up; Hard Eight; To the Nines; Ten Big Ones

FDB03903MBC: Mitford Years series.
Author: Karon, Jan
Titles: At Home in Mitford; A Light in the Window; These High, Green Hills; Out to Canaan; A New Song; A Common Life: The Wedding Story; In This Mountain; Shepherds Abiding; Light From Heaven; Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good; Come Rain or Come Shine

FDB03910MBC: Mountain Man 1-10.
Author: Johnstone, William W.
Titles: The Last Mountain Man; Return of the Mountain Man; Trail of the Mountain Man; Revenge of the Mountain Man; Law of the Mountain Man; Journey of the Mountain Man; War of the Mountain Man; Code of the Mountain Man; Pursuit of the Mountain Man; Courage of the Mountain Man

FDB03920MBC: James Bond series.
Author: Fleming, Ian
Titles: Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Doctor No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man With the Golden Gun; Octopussy & the Living Daylights

Coming Soon: more collections and series favorites from James Patterson, John Grisham, Debbie Macomber, Janet Evanovich, Steven King, David Baldacci, and Nora Roberts.

Format Change -- September 6, 2016

As of September 6, 2016, we will no longer be circulating cassettes (RCs). The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) announced a four-year process to withdraw and convert RC titles to digital format at all of the talking book state libraries, which began in 2012. Thousands of titles have been converted. Feel free to contact us if you discover a title is missing from a series or other inconsistency. This remains an evolving project, as some older books are unsuitable for conversion and must be re-recorded or, in some cases, removed from the conversion list. We hope you continue to enjoy our digital books on cartridges as well as books in downloadable format from the Braille and Audio Reading Download service of NLS (BARD).